If you're going to end up throwing a PCI-e card in it later, just remember that the amd64 graphics drivers can suck a bit. From what I've heard, DRI and 3D just don't happen. With x86 you've got the binary nVidia drivers and the open source ATI onesthat do that kind of crap .

Otherwise, it looks like that machien will run BSD pretty solidly.

When I got my new machine, the major problems I had were my SATAII DVD drive messing up (Works fine otherwise, but couldn't install from disc. FTP worked perfectly.) and the onboard gigabit NIC wasn't supported (Attansic L1). I just looked at the specifications, and the shuttle board uses a Marvell one, which is supported by the msk driver Score.

Oh my. x86 refers to the 32-bit Intel architecture (including AMD and others) whereas AMD64 refers to the 64-bit Intel architecture (including AMD). It is so named because AMD did it first; it has nothing to do with the brand.

Depends on the CPU FSB frequency, and if you are overclocking or not. It the -667 matches your CPU 1333MHz, in this case), then there is no advantage to getting memory that is faster. If you overclock the CPU, though, you may want the head room to increase the FSB clock. In that case, you may want the 800MHz speed.

I've no experience with the motherboard you are using, so this is necessarily general.

I wouldn't recommend emachines as they are kniowbn to have issues with drivers and faulty mainboards. How ever from my experience I can highly recommend HP-Compaq, Lenovo (formally known as IBM personal computer division) or Dell systems.

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You might have mentioned it. If you use the CPU at its stock speed, then there is no advantage to a faster memory speed. If your motherboard allows for increasing the CPU speed (by increasing the FSB), and you use it, then it is an advantage. For $5 it is worth it unless you are opposed in all cases to overclocking.

FWIW, usually you can up the FSB from a 1066 bus to 1333 without a CPU voltage change. The latter bus speed is still 667, but you have some headroom if you use 800MHz memory.